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Summary: God has given us the choice: life and blessing or death and curses. Which will we choose?



INTRODUCTION: A. Has there ever been a time in your life when you made the wrong choice?

--Maybe you’ve heard of the Darwin Awards. It’s a yearly feature sent around the

Internet hat highlights the worst of the wrong choices people have made in the past

Year. Here is the 2005 list of Darwin Awards:

1. In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after

squeezing head-first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys

2. A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker who “totally zoned when he ran,” and


3. In Bixton, NC, a man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the

sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach goers said, that Daniel Jones, age 21, dug

the hold for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair

at the bottom of the hole when it collapsed, burying him beneath five feet of sand.

People on the beach tried to dig Jones out but couldn’t reach him. It took rescued


watched. He was pronounced dead at a hospital

4. Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell face0first through

the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. He was killed when the long


of his skull as he hit the floor.

5. HONORABLE MENTION: Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover




apparently failed to notice the window was closed.

6. RUNNER-UP: In Tacoma, WA, Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several




Upon arriving at the midpoint of the bride, they discovered that no on had brought

the appropriate bungee cord. Bingham volunteered to jump using a coil of

lineman’s cable that was nearby. One end of the cable was secured around

Bingham’s leg and the other end was tied to the bridge. He fell 40 feet and then the


into the icy river water and was rescued by two nearby fisherman. According to

news reports, his foot was never located.

7. WINNER: There was an overzealous zookeeper in Germany who fed his


figs, and prunes. Thinking the treatment had not worked, he was attempting

another procedure standing directly behind the elephant when he was buried in the

avalanche that was released. The force knocked him to the ground where he hit his

head on a rock and lay there unconscious during the whole process. He died by

suffocation because he was alone and wasn’t discovered until an hour later by a

watchman making his rounds.

B. Many of you are probably familiar with the country music icon George Jones.

George has been around quite a long time and a lot of his songs are what are called the

stereotypical “cheatin’ and drinkin’” songs. George, himself, had a drinking problem

and country music fans were horrified to hear that Jones was critically injured on

March 6, 1999 when he crashed his car into a bridge in the Nashville area. The

investigation showed that George had been drunk while at the wheel.

Thankfully, George recovered. His next album was called Cold Hard Truth and on

it was a hit song titled “Choices”. Ironically, the hook line of the song says, “I’m

living and dying with the choices I made.”

1. We all make choices every day

2. Some are mundane; others make the difference between life and death.

C. We, as a congregation, face some life and death decisions

1. We stand at a crossroads and have to choose which way we’re going to go

2. As we study the Scriptures this morning, I encourage every one of us to make the

right decision.


A. Everything we do as Christians and as a Christian church should be ground in the Bible

1. This morning we’re going to look at a passage speaks to our situation today

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